CIDM Information Management News November 2005: Subscribe to the Best Practices newsletter

Subscribe to the Best Practices newsletter

The Center for Information-Development Management (CIDM) invites you to take advantage of the wealth of industry-related information you’ll find in the Best Practices newsletter. This bimonthly publication, directed by JoAnn Hackos, is written by publications managers for publications managers. You’ll learn from Mike Eleder, senior manager at Lucent Technologies, about “Designing on Steroids” so that you’re assured of high-quality work from offshore and outsourced staff. You’ll learn from Michael Fergusson, VP of Product Strategy at Blast Radius, how to achieve the benefits of team-based technical writing. From Pat Benson at Medtronic, you’ll find out how to create writer/artist teams and move to domain-oriented writing to capitalize on your content-management investment.

Best Practices provides practical guidance for professional information-development managers, focusing on industry best practices and in-depth analyses of strategies being discussed in the executive conference rooms. Over the past few years, CIDM members and newsletter subscribers have learned about disruptive innovations from the work of Clayton Christensen of Harvard Business School, about high-tech product marketing strategies from the work of Geoffrey Moore, author of Crossing the Chasm, and about The Balanced Scorecard approach to strategic measurements from Kaplan and Norton. Subscribing to Best Practices is the most inexpensive equivalent to an MBA in publications management.

You can subscribe to the Best Practices newsletter even if you aren’t a CIDM member. The subscription costs $99 per year. For subscribers outside the US, the cost is $109 USD. Please fill out the subscription form through the CIDM web site. You can pay securely online, or we will call you for payment details (indicate your choice at the bottom of the form).

Please note that the Best Practices newsletter has completely different content than our monthly electronic newsletter, Information Management News. To subscribe to the free electronic newsletter, please visit the CIDM web site.